The Boomstick Show 54 25112011

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More dubious than a Kompany Red card, less credible than a Syrian ceasefire – it’s Ep 61 of TBS! Show Highlights: – New material from Michael Woods, Artful and Delilah. – Classics from Technotronic, Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin. – … Continue reading →

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, but the dance tunes won’t stop pumpin’ from this foul-mouthed tw…individual. Yes, it’s TBS Episode 56! Show Highlights: – NEW tunes from Sonny Wharton, DJs From Mars and Paul Oakenfold. – CLASSIC … Continue reading →

Made with all the ineptitude of a tabloid journalist without making a mess of your bins, it’s Episode 54 of The Boomstick Show!   Show Highlights: – New tunes from Tiesto, Eric Morillo, SHM and Chase & Status. – Classics … Continue reading →

LISTEN THIS AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE.

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Hello everyone!!!

Here’s the latest Dj that I’ve discovered on Twitter in the last week, Egapia.

As always, if you would like for me to give you a shout-out on Twitter (and include you on a blog-post), hit me up on Twitter or send me an email, I’m focusing primarily on progressive house, EDM and Progressive. Also, don’t get discouraged if I don’t mention you. I’m trying to squeeze this into a busy schedule and I probably won’t be able to get to everyone.

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Friday, October 27 — Wolfgang Gartner and Bloody Beetroots threw it down hard at Congress Theatre in Chicago on Friday. We arrived right as Wolfgang Gartner went on and eventually worked our way to the front for Bloody Beetroots. I held on to the fence to claim my spot right in the front when one of the Beetroots came to the front and held the microphone out for the crowd to scream for the song “Warp.” Needless to say that was my favorite moment. Beetroots raged Congress until around 2:30 a.m. I wasn’t too familiar with Beetroots or Gartner before the show because I generally get more into drum and bass dub electro beats before house. I love all EDM but I was not expecting much from this show. Instead I was completely blown away.

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Saturday, October 28 — Kill the Noise, Baauer, Knife Party and Tommy Trash sold out Congress on Saturday night. We got there right as Baauer went on. I had never heard of him prior but a friend said he was dying to see Baauer and I now understand why. I am listening to a Baauer Pandora station right now. It was love at first bass drop. He had a lot of remixed hip hop songs and heavy bass beats that got the girls in the audience twerkin. There were too many couples that I had to push out of the way as they practically got it on in front of me. Regardless Baauer had the crowd raging hard. Then was Kill the Noise but unfortunately bathroom breaks, beer runs and moving upstairs looking for people distracted my group. Finally we made our way to the front row of the balcony and Knife Party came on. The crowd went wild as they remixed a few Swedish House Mafia tracks. They also remixed Bangarang into Kyoto by Skrillex which was one of my favorite moments. Internet Friends by Knife Party was still the best though. Then Knife Party cut their set off and all of the sudden Tommy Trash came out. The audience was a little confused by still ready to rage. I liked Tommy Trash and continued to rage hard but the crowd began to clear out slowly because I think Tommy Trash was a little too house for the audience filled with a lot of random kids who heard that Knife Party was a cool dubstep DJ.

Friday was my first show I got to take my new rave shades to and it was awesome. I love going up to random kids and putting the shades on them. The amazed and complete WOW reactions are hilarious. On Saturday I dressed up as a zombie raver and it was probably my best halloween costume yet. Overall my weekend was pretty awesome and I can’t decide which show was better. Beetroots vs. Knife Party. Both were equally breathtaking.

 

Hotel Bar Revival In Redding

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Evangelism becomes much more easy when we use the gift of prophecy. Firstly, God can lead us when we aren’t sure of what to say in which situation. Secondly, people tend to exclaim “God is truly with you!” when you reveal the secrets of their hearts prophetically (1 Cor 14:25). When Jesus could tell Nathanael what he had been doing before they met, the latter exclaimed that Jesus truly is the Son of God (Jn 1:48-49). John Wimber taught a lot about this and often shared how he had led a couple to the Lord after sharing some detailed words of knowledge over the man:

My friends Simon Adahl and Orjan Armgren also have a lot of experience of prophetic evangelism. I wrote just a couple of days ago about how they led three persons to Christ in a hotel bar in Redding, California, using the gift of prophecy. Of course, they also do this when they are at home here in Sweden, and I want to share three of those events that they have told me about.

Once, Simon and Orjan were at Simon’s place and talked with a woman they knew who had some problems in her life. Suddenly Simon said: “We’re going to pray for you know. You have prayed to God that someone would pray for you, haven’t you?” “How do you know this?” she said.

“I go with God”, Simon answered. “And in fact, right now I see a young girl, running around on a grass field with a kite. And when she sees how the wind is katching the kite high up in the air, she’s so happy. This girl is you, and that is how happy the Lord wants you to be again.”

The woman started to weep. Then Orjan said: “I hear a song. ‘This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it…’” – Suddenly the woman went down on her knees shouting “I want to be saved!” Continue reading →

A month ago, I wrote about how my friend Simon Adahl was released in the gifts of the Spirit after Matthew had told him to love his enemies. Since then, he and his good friend Orjan Armgren have led many to faith in Jesus through the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of prophecy. When people experience a miracle, it is hard for them to deny the existence and power of God.

About three years ago Orjan told Simon: “The Lord wants us to go to Redding in the United States.” “No way!” Simon said, “there are so many strange people in the US, they don’t need two more!” He really didn’t want to go, but he agreed to pray “Lord, if it is your will let it happen and fix the money and so on.” He hoped that nothing would happen.

A few days later, they were visiting a prophetic woman, and as soon as she opened the door she exclaimed “You are going to the US, I pay it all!” Oh crap, Simon thought for himself. “The Lord has told me that you are going on the first of November!” When Simon checked his calender, he had no work between the first and fifteenth of November, and his wife was by coincidence also free from work on exactly those days so that she could take care of their child.

Orjan had said that they were going to visit Bethel Church. When Simon checked their website he saw that they arranged a “Leadership Advanced Conference” for pastors and leaders. It was only possible to participate if one got an invitation from the church. He emailed them: “Hi my name is Simon Adahl and I don’t even want to go but the Lord has provided for us in a supernatural way for us to come.” They got the invitation.

Martin Garrix

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Attention all producers!

I’m giving one of my songs to all of you to play around with/remix/sample/base your own songs on! Yes, I am giving you all a free license to use the song as you wish. I will put the whole FL Studio project of the song, with MIDIs, samples and everything, online. All I require is that my Facebook page reaches 100 likes. I’m trying to grow my social media fanbase and I hope this will help with that!

So go to my Soundcloud, decide which song you’d like to get your hands on, let me know, and share my Facebook page around like it’s a tray full of free shots at a bar! And thus, the magic happens. 🙂

Here’s my Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/capricasevenmusic

Here’s my Soundcloud:

And that’s that.

Cheers!

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The official troll of the EDM community might have left Twitter for now, but trust me, he’ll be back to his old trolling ways soon.

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Avicii: a master melody maker according to his fans, an arrogant scumbag according to his haters.

While I have no doubt Borgore has his way with the ladies, every now and then the pressure of being a top dubstep producer and DJ gets overwhelming and he has to “relieve” himself. Completely natural.

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Martin Garrix: rustling jimmies seems to be his business (in addition to making big room house and DJing) and business is good. His exploding rise to the top of the EDM scene started with the number one Beatport hit “Animals” and recently he got even more panties in a bunch by acquiring one million Facebook likes.

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Afrojack gets a lot of disses thrown his way from EDM fans, with people accusing him of milking the same formula again and again. The level-headed Dutchman keeps it cool regardless, recently making a humourous reply to Eminem’s diss. This man knows how to keep a poker face.

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David Guetta is maybe the most dissed EDM producer right now. From EDM fans joking about the five-key “David Guetta piano” and Guetta’s supposedly pre-recorded sets to pop star Lorde calling him “gross”, David Guetta gets a lot of shit thrown at him these days. This makes him the Forever Alone guy of the EDM scene. “It stings,” David confessed recently, “but all this money that keeps coming in helps”. We feel you, David.

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The result of relentless photoshopping, here it is, only in Capricaseven’s Electronic Music Blog: The Faces of EDM wallpaper! Feel free to toss this profoundly swagg artwork on your desktop. Or close your browser and never look at the hideous thing again. It’s your call, mate.

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Not my best Photoshop work, but here it is, to illustrate my point.

Big room house. It’s the big thing right now. Everyone has an opinion on it. Personally, I love big room. But as with anything popular, the genre has divided people. This is perfectly normal, not everyone likes everything. However, some people just can’t deal with the fact different people like different styles. As always with all things popular, there are a lot of people who got their jimmies rustled. (To those unfamiliar with the expression, “having your jimmies rustled” means pretty much that you get angry about something, usually with no reason.) These people are calling big room “generic”, “crap”, “too mainstream”, “too commercial”, etc. I first noticed this when there was a post on a popular EDM Facebook page, EDMFact (which is a quite awesome page in general), denouncing big room:

 “Big room music seems so backwards. It has incredibly vibrant and energetic intros that lead to absolute minimalism as opposed to vice versa with most other genres.”

My response to this would be… So? Big room has a different format, a different mechanic of buildups and drops.. It’s different, but how does that make it backwards? It’s pretty damn effective, I’d say. It rocks on the dancefloor. It’s fun. It works.

Let’s focus on the number one thing that is rustling jimmies in the more critical, or dare I say, hipster people in the EDM community: Martin Garrix.

Martin Garrix is the guy who made the Beatport number one track “Animals”, as everyone up to date on EDM surely knows. Hell, a big bunch of people outside the scene know him at this point. Spinnin’ Records actually did some quite clever marketing with this song, posting a teaser of the song in May without revealing who made the track. They later revealead that the song was made by the 17-year-old Dutchman. I personally think it’s a pretty damn clever song. It’s well made and catchy as hell. It’s a great song, an essential big room tune. Of course, by now, pretty much everyone has heard it many times. And not all care to hear it all the time at clubs, festivals and radio stations. But this happens with any popular track. They all wear out in time. They might still be great. A song being overplayed doesn’t make the song bad, it just makes it old.

So recently Martin’s Facebook page hit one million views, and the sour people with rustled jimmies emerged again. Many fans like myself were happy of Martin’s success and congratulated him. But many people started criticizing him with quite weak arguments. Criticizing things when there really is a point in the criticism is totally ok in my book and people should totally do that when it’s called for. But there were some really stupid arguments in this case. I’m going to dissect two of them:

 “Animals wasn’t made by Martin Garrix, it was ghost produced!”

This is the stupidest argument against Martin Garrix I’ve seen so far. Let’s be logical: why would Spinnin’ Records hire someone to ghost produce a track for a 17 year old artist who is just starting out his career, and hasn’t had much success yet? It makes no sense to have a track ghost-produced for a small artist, when they could have given the supposedly ghost-produced track to some big artist, like Hardwell, Nicky Romero, Bingo Players, or some other already big name Spinnin’ has on their roster. The song would have been much easier to promote when it would be presented as being made by an already established, already popular artist. If they really had Animals ghost produced, and not made by Martin, why would they give it to Martin? Makes no sense. Also, there is a video of Martin explaining how he made Animals. I haven’t watched it, but it would seem unlikely that Spinnin’ would’ve spent time to train Martin to act like he made the song. That sounds like a big fat conspiracy theory, and while they aren’t always wrong, this one seems to veer into the foilhat area. Also, there are claims that Martin himself has been ghost producing for other producers.

 “Martin Garrix became popular just because of one song!”

This is partially true: Animals is what made Martin Garrix popular and without it, I probably wouldn’t be writing this article because this whole phenomena wouldn’t exist. However, it wasn’t his first song, he has released plenty of tracks on Spinnin’ records before Animals. He is currently producing more music, and he recently released the single Wizard with Jay Hardway. Many people are criticizing it because it sounds like Animals, and it does, but why is that a problem? All artists have a signature style and most have some songs that sound similar. I am pretty sure Martin will explore different ground in the future and not just milk the same formula. This is what I hope, at least.

I’ll end this post with this interview of Martin. To me it looks like he’s a quite nice fellow. He seems very humble and grateful of his success, and you can see the guy is enjoying what he does.

Keep it up, Martin. You’re living the dream of every bedroom producer, and from what I can tell, it’s people like you who deserve to be rewarded for their hard work. Good luck with your career!